OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “hookah” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Design for a Hookah Base
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
A Raja Smoking a Hookah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1710
Lady About to Smoke a Hookah
Artist not stated in the record · ca.1790
Vase with Scrolling Vines
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Portrait of Manya Sahib Man Rup Sagarji
Manak · late 18th century
Portrait of Thakur Utham Ram
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760
Study for "The Pipe Bearer"
John Frederick Lewis · 1841–51
Maharana Bhim Singh and Retinue Embark on a Hunt
Chokha · ca. 1805–10
Lady on a Terrace
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Maharaja Bijay Singh in His Harem
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
Huqqa Mat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800
Prince and Ladies in a Garden
Nidha Mal · mid-18th century
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 29 matched · 24 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 13:07 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.